We have confirmed that all users whose email addresses have an Office 365 subscription attached to it are getting the ad-free Outlook.com experience. We encourage anyone who would like the ad-free Outlook.com experience to sign up for an Office 365 subscription, which comes with a plethora of additional perks and benefits.

In addition to this, users who would like to have a larger reading surface may find the Reading Pane Off/Hidden mode more preferable. This setting may be found in the Quick Settings panel, under Reading Pane > Hide.

Thanks for your feedback on the Outlook.com beta! For subscribers, we are working on turning off ads in the beta and it will come in a future update. We will continue to monitor the overall feedback on the ads user experience.

You are using 1/4 of my screen for ads. You want me to pay to get rid of the ads, but your systems don't work. Why am I pressing inbox 5 times when it says 1 beside it, and nothing happens? I will be switching to a new email provider soon. Shame. 17 years.

Overall, I really like the new beta Outlook. However, I dislike that when you click to read an email, it is cut off on both sides - on one side by ads, and on the other by my email folders (inbox, drafts, archive, etc.), and the list of emails. It means that I have to scroll to either side to read the full email - particularly when emails from advertisers. This occurs less for person to person emails. Either please zoom out of the emails so that I can read the full email without needing to scroll from side to side, or get rid of the advertising panel (I pay for a Microsoft subscription) so that the email takes up the full left side of the screen. Thanks!!

The ads take up too much space on the right hand size, so there is not enough room to see my folders, emails and read the actual email itself. Please either get rid of these ads or make them go along the bottom of the screen so it does not affect the width of the layout.